makeitquick | 4th Dusting

To decide who is sent to Heaven and who is sent to Hell, it's bad enough with demons and evil people running around while we're alive. You wouldn't want them parading around after your death as well, would you?

[At least that's how it sounded.]

[She swallows. After you die? There's something... after you die? she knows some people believe that, but in Haddyn that's a dying thought. So she never-]

Th-that's... real. It's real?

It sure is, never been there myself, fortunately. But Son-kun has... Apparently more than once if what he said is true, but I only know of one time.

How do you die more than once?

You die, get resurrected and die again. Though with the deities allowing him to keep his body in the otherworld then I suppose he could be killed there as well, but that would be messy. There may be another world after death but I'm sure there isn't anything else after a soul dies.

[...That's amazing. She blinks at the book, actually at a loss for words as she tries to process all that. The deity chain was just neat but the Afterlife? Souls moving on? Souls go places? And if they do - did Harth? Or...]

[Bulma waits for a bit before talking again, seeing as there's no response from the other side.]

Was that a bit too much?

[She can think of many reasons why someone would fall silent after what she said after all. But the most neutral and less intruding way to ask that she can think of now is that.]

It's... a lot, yeah. [A beat] Amazing, really.

Well, that's good then. Better if it's a lot but amazing than it being a lot and horrible.

[One can hear the light smile on her voice.]

Yeah, guess so... ...Who were you again, though?

Just call me Bulma, and you were...?

Melaka.

Nice to meet you Melaka. So... I take there are demons in your own world? Or were you just curious about it?

Lotta them, actually.

A lot of them? Uh... Well... That sounds problematic if they don't behave and I suppose it's too much to ask that of them, right?

Yee-up. Tend to be evil all over.

How do you guys deal with them? Just one was quite a hassle for us to be honest.

Killed 'em. Had to lead a war at one point.

Must have been quite an all out war. Did you win?

Yeah. Lost a lot for it, but I got the demon brain all over me to prove it.

I see... Indeed something like that would have a high prize.

[It had one even at her own world, they managed to always keep reviving their friends even after they died and resurrected once already... But they aren't the only ones who died. In the back of her mind she knows and sometimes she wonders if there won't be people whom they didn't resurrect, because they didn't know they died in those fights, or because they had died before already and couldn't be resurrected again unless using the Namekian dragon balls. Still, she tries to not think about it.]

Are you getting interesting answers here?

A few. [A beat] Seems like there's a lotta demons of all sorts of types out there.

Thousands of worlds give place to thousands of visions and interpretations... How's the experience?

Kinda feels like someone's spinning me.

[She can't help but chuckle a bit.]

No one warned you about that, did they? Though I suppose that even then it could have been hard to believe it given what you had in your own world.

4th Dusting

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